{"id":9230,"date":"2012-10-24T08:14:08","date_gmt":"2012-10-24T15:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=9230"},"modified":"2012-10-24T08:14:08","modified_gmt":"2012-10-24T15:14:08","slug":"open-thread10242012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/24\/open-thread10242012\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;10\/24\/2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Yesterday I could not have been more proud of my guys in prison.&#160; Among other things we discussed how failing to let go can cause us to suffer.&#160; Their honesty and dedication was outstanding, as usual.&#160; Greetings to Critter from Critter.&#160; I returned home late, and I\u2019m going back to bed.&#160; I\u2019m still not current with replies.&#160; If I feel more rested later today, I\u2019ll catch up.&#160; Tomorrow I will be back to the prison for more volunteer work.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 4:10 (average 5:48).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2012-10-24-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&#160; How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/front.moveon.org\/what-if-romney-wins-and-the-history-channel-airs-something-like-this-after-4-years\/\" target=\"_blank\">MoveOn<\/a>: <\/font>What If Romney Wins And The History Channel Airs Something Like This After 4 Years?<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/y9cZ1FklzAw?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">If Willard wins, this is far more prophetic than any prediction you&#8217;ll ever hear from Republican Supply-side pseudo Christians. It is what I have been telling you all along.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/10\/24\/us\/politics\/strident-anti-obama-messages-flood-key-states.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>And a new anti-Obama DVD is dropping into voters\u2019 mailboxes, claiming that the president is the love child of an illicit relationship between his mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, and Frank Marshall Davis, a Communist Party loyalist. The back story of the DVD offers the latest example of how secretive forces outside the presidential campaigns can sweep into battleground states days before the election. <\/p>\n<p>This summer, a group of well-financed conservative activists had an idea for what they hoped would be a last-minute game changer in the presidential race. They would put out a DVD that made a compelling case against Mr. Obama in battleground states, sending it to voters through a carefully targeted direct mail campaign or as an insert in Sunday newspapers in the weeks before Election Day.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">This is both the effect of <em>Citizen&#8217;s United<\/em> and the reason that both it, and the political party responsible for it <strong>MUST<\/strong> be overturned. I urge you to click through for the rest of this article.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-us-canada-20008687\" target=\"_blank\">BBC<\/a>: <\/font>A BBC World Service opinion poll has found sharply higher overseas approval ratings for US President Barack Obama than Republican challenger Mitt Romney.<\/p>\n<p>An average of 50% favoured Mr Obama, with 9% for Mr Romney, in the survey of 21,797 people in 21 countries.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/24worldservicepoll.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"24worldservicepoll\" border=\"0\" alt=\"24worldservicepoll\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/24worldservicepoll_thumb.gif\" width=\"466\" height=\"544\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">This defeats Romney&#8217;s lie that Obama has made the US lose support in the international community.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"24Cartoon\" border=\"0\" alt=\"24Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/24Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"654\" height=\"404\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I could not have been more proud of my guys in prison.&#160; Among other things we discussed how failing to let go can cause us to suffer.&#160; Their honesty and dedication was outstanding, as usual.&#160; Greetings to Critter from Critter.&#160; I returned home late, and I\u2019m going back to bed.&#160; I\u2019m still not current <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/24\/open-thread10242012\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","category-35-id","category-3-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}